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Twelfth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. George Allen and Unwin. London. Chas. Scribner's Sons. New York. 1929. Octavo. lxiv, [16], 518pp. All maps and plans as published, no misfolding or protrusions. Short closed attachment tear to frontispiece map. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (faded) and to upper board. All edges marbled. Woven bookmark. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to reps. Small indentation from elastic band to lower edge of upper board.Hinrichsen E59

Third edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. 1908. Octavo. x, 247pp. All maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to reps. Double woven bookmarks. Lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine. Neat signature 'George Williams' to top of half-title. Dulau & Co. 37, Soho Square, London, W. booksellers imprint to lower title page.Hinrichsen E62

14th edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1906. x, 234pp. Maps and plans as listed. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Double bookmark. Final map placed a little proud, but all folded correctly and little, if ever, used. Publisher's adverts to feps., map to reps. Minor shelf wear. Signature of B. H. Whitley to verso ffep, dated August 1906Hinrichsen D213
Benjamin Heywood Whitley (1879 – 1916) Ulverston. BA Dublin. FRCC Modern languages master at St Cuthberts, Worksop and at Loretto. 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Scots. Killed in action on the Somme July 17 1916. Commemorated on the Great Gable War Memorial.

Editorial Augusta. Barcelona. 1925. Small octavo. xxiv, 269pp. 61 plates, 2 large folding maps, coloured in outlline. Short closed tear and crease to edge fold of the first large map, otherwise both maps are correctly folded and un-torn. Location of the Gran Hotel Palma de Mallorca circled with pencil. Original red cloth, worn. Gilt lettering to upper board. Hinges cracked. Toned to endpapers. A few dogears. Retaining the original attached Hotel Falcon bookmark with attribution to this work. Purple inked stamp of the Turismo de Palma de Mallorca to verso of title page. Embossed price to lower board.
Inscription of interest to the ffep: (1936 inscription in different ink to the later inscription)
"Wimperis. Palma de Mallorca. January 1936. 3, The Vale, Chelsea, SW3". "To VW* 1960 & to Alan and Virginia 1966."
Edmund Walter Wimperis (1865-1946), Architect. The son of Edmund Morison Wimperis, watercolourist, and brother of the playwright Arthur Wimperis, Edmund Wimperis was architect to the Grosvenor… Read More

Thomas Cook & Son. London. 1901. Small octavo. vi, (1), 460pp. (4bl), 47pp adverts. Endpaper adverts. 12 maps and plans. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Some foxing/toning and spotting, but firmly bound and all maps intact. Some darkening to edge of upper board. Light wear.

Third edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1913. xxvi, 446pp. 19 maps, 68 plans. Printed feps, map to rep. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt. Green and red cloth bookmarks. All edges marbled. Slightly rubbed to edges. A few tiny dogears to the bottom corners of the last 20 odd pages. Historic small paperclip transfer mark to p 163. All maps crisp and correctly folded. Neat signature (K. Jameson) dated 1914 to fep. Hinrichsen D225.

3rd edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1902. 16mo. xxiv, 346pp. 27 maps, 31 plans as listed, all in good order and seemingly unopened. Original red boards. Gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Publisher's ads to front pastedown. Red and green silk bookmarks. Faded to spine, a little surface wear to boards. Cracked to hinges, but firm. A few minor dog eared corners, short marginal closed tears p119 & p327. Light toning. Darkening to free endpapers. Signature "Von Sommerfeld" to upper margin of half title. Pencil note in German to rfep. "Villa Imperial" marked with x on Bordighera town map. Light marginal pencil annotation to section on Genoa to Ventimiglia and Savona, mostly highlighting tunnels, bridges and beaches. Random pencil marks to rear pastedown, and inscribed date 21.4.47. Booksellers plate "Touristen-Magazin H. Mues, Berlin, W. Kronenstr. 15 Ecke Friedrichstr." Hinrichsen D351The signature Von Sommerfeld may be of some interest, and worthy of further research, as the full… Read More

Third revised and augmented edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Dulau and Co. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1907. Octavo. lxiv, 331pp. All maps and plans pristine as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Publisher's adverts to feps. Double bookmark. Lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine.
Hinrichsen E265

Hachette. Paris. 1967. Octavo. 461pp. Text maps and plans. Map to fep. Publisher's adverts to rep. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Viking ship vignette to upper board. Two silk bookmarks. Endpapers lightly toned. Together with 17pp Supplement, also dated 1967, loosely inserted. (The supplement is often missing)

Fourth revised edition. Leipzig. 1909. cxxvi, 447pp. 16 maps, 30 plans, 2 diagrams, panorama of Athens. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges marbled. Double silk bookmarks. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to rear eps. Pocket to rear with folding map. Lightly sunned to spine. Occasional spotting/light toning. A crisp copy with the maps neatly folded. Signature of F H A Booth dated April 1909 to ffep. Hinrichsen E237.

Eighteenth edition. John Murray. 1892. Octavo. viii, 2pp additions and corrections dated 1894, (2)pp addendum dated 1893, Great Eastern Railway, 420pp, xlv index, Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1894-1895, 60pp. 16 maps and plans, including the additional 3 maps engraved in 1893. Turquoise endpapers with publisher's ads. Light pencil signature to upper margin of title. Occasional spotting. Original red cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. A little faded and spotted to spine. Corners slightly rubbed. All maps and plans are crisp with no misfolding.

i 4 blade. IV. Utgitt av Norges Geografiske Opmaaling. Geographical Survey of Norway 1874. Veinettet Ajourfort 1937. Large coloured folding map. 70cm x 91cm. Folding down to 11cm x 15.5cm. Slightly sunned to exterior folds.Edward Stanford Ltd Cartographers to the King plate to upper cover.Scarce.Tromso, Norway.

[First edition thus] Fifth edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Paul Ollendorff. Paris. 1895. Octavo. xxix, 361pp. 8 maps, 22 plans, several folding. Original red cloth, mottled to edges of both boards. In original dust wrapper, chipped to edges and spine. All edges marbled. Green bookmarker. Signature Robinson to ffep. Small paper fault excess folded corner to title. A crisp copy, in the scarce dust wrapper.
This is the first edition thus. The fourth and final edition of Nord de la France of 1893 was divided into Nord Este and Nord Ouest in this and the subsequent editions from 1895.
Hinrichsen F179.

Ninth edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1910. 16mo. xxxvi, 547pp. 23 maps, 28 plans, 2 panoramas. Printed front endpapers, map to rear endpapers. Double woven bookmarks. All edges marbled. A bright crisp copy in the original red publisher's cloth, gilt. In the original brown dust wrapper with some edge tears, protected. One map (Provence) sits a little proud, as bound. Pencil signature of Duncan Bogle. Lausann, Switzerland dated Oct 3rd 1910 to verso ffep. Hinrichsen F188

Second edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Paul Ollendorff. Paris. 1905. Octavo. lxii, 620pp. Maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Publisher's adverts to fep. All edges marbled. Double woven bookmark in green and red. First and last maps a little toned, all others pristine, with no misfolding or protrusion. Frontispiece map tear repaired to verso, with short closed fold tear. Slightly faded. Light water stain to extreme top edge of a few pages.Only two editions published in French, this being the last.Hinrichsen F226

Thirteenth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. Dulau and Co. London. 1900. 8vo. xxxiv, 430pp. Folding coloured map frontispiece, 33 further maps, some folding, and 65 plans. Original red cloth, slightly mottled to edges, in original brown dust wrapper, with paper label to spine. Chip to one corner and head of dustwrapper spine. Adverts to fep. Book plate (Noble) to free endpaper map. All edges marbled. Green bookmark. Some toning to free endpapers. Last map sits a little proud, and edge is creased. A crisp copy. Scarce in dust wrapper.
Hinrichsen E27

Tenth edition, revised and augmented. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. T. Fisher Unwin. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1912. Octavo. lx, 478pp. All maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Double bookmarks. A little wear to head and small tear to tail of spine, and rubbing to corners. First four pages with tiny dogears. No misfolding or tears. Lacks the grammar booklet which was designed for removal. Flyer for Sifton, Pread & Co. The Map House, printed in red, tipped in to ffep.Hinrichsen E233a

Twelfth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. T. Fisher Unwin, 1 Adelphi Terrace. London. Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Avenue. New York. 1914. Octavo. xxx, 388pp. Folding frontis. coloured map, 36 further maps and 50 plans, several folding. Original red cloth, in original dust wrapper. All edges marbled. Two silk bookmarks. Adverts to front endpapers, map to rear endpapers. Short closed tear to attachment of first map, no loss. All other maps pristine. Dust wrapper chipped to edges and folds.The last pre first world war edition.
Hinrichsen E43

Twenty-first edition. Karl Baedeker, Dulau & Co, Charles Scribner's Sons. Leipzig, London, New York. Small octavo. xxxviii, 548pp. 63 maps, 17 plans, 11 panoramas. Publisher's ads to fep. Map to reps. Marbled edges. Silk bookmarks. Original red cloth, gilt lettering. Some spotting/toning to maps and panoramas. Short closed tear to frontispiece map. Proud edges of folding panoramas slightly chipped. A little strained at title/frontispiece. Previous owner's signature to fep, with another signature crossed through. Cloth a little tired, but a reasonable enough copy, including an uncommon Baedeker's Handbooks loose insert advising methods for detaching single sections from the book and purchasing linen covers for the detached sections, "price 50 pfennigs".

Winter 1937-8 Edition. Ahrens Publishing Co. Inc. New York & Chicago. 1937. Octavo. 200 pp. Directory plus adverts. Original pictorial covers, sunned to spine and rubbed to edges. Text toned, edges darkened. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. Still firmly bound and seemingly unread. A nice vintage primary historic source. Pre WWII-USA.